Ed, The surrounding area is undeveloped but shows evidence of having been logged perhaps 10 - 15 years ago, although not intensively, and certainly not clear-cut. I walked the shore of the lake looking for large trees a couple weeks ago and came across a few nice specimens, among them red oak, bur oak, yellow bitch, white bitch, red maple, and ash (white I think). It seemed that there were almost always some mature trees near the water and in some cases farther from the water as well. But when there was evidence of cutting it usually came down to within 20 m of the beach, having spared the area closer to the water. I don't think the area immediately around the tree had been cut - at least there was no evidence of it. Some of the surrounding white cedars that you see in the photos, for example, are about average size for what I'm used to seeing in general in the Acadian forest. To hazard a guess, I'd say it might be 75 feet tall, but I could be wrong since I'm not used to estimating heights and it was quite difficult to get a look at the tree from a distance, except from the water, but even then it was quite obscured by the branches of other trees.
Mike On Sep 20, 8:58 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > Nice oak tree. From the photos it looks like this is the lone old/big tree > in a mix of smaller and younger trees. Has the rest of the area around it > been cut before, or am I mistaken? How tall would you say the tree might be? > Are there any other big or ld trees in the area? > > Ed > > "To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the > same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, > and which shall never be seen again" - Ralph Waldo Emerson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike Kowalski > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:46 PM > Subject: [ENTS] Big Old Red Oak > > ENTS, > > I came across this amazing Red Oak while exploring an area near > Maquapit Lake, NB. CBH = 394 cm (155 inch). > > It seems to be forest-grown. I found the tree growing near the lake > and within the flood plain. There is evidence of previous harvesting > just a short distance away, so this tree and a few other large ones > including a Yellow Birch and another Red Oak may have been spared > years ago because they were so close to the water. > > I've included a few different shots to give you some perspective. The > one taken from a distance really gives you an idea of how much larger > this is from the other trees in the area. I have to say, this is the > largest girth forest-grown Red Oak I've ever seen. It almost gives me > goose-bumps just standing near by. It looks like it lost a branch > years ago, but all the other branches seem to be quite full of leaves. > There is also some evidence of decay down lower, and the bark seems to > have separated from the main trunk in some places but is still very > strong. > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
